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Genuinely staggering how many players Chelsea think they need. There seems to be another one every day.

It also provides a break from thinking about amortisation and accountancy rules, I guess.

what an absolute fucking joker Levy is.

It’s is so very boring. it’s like watching a Bruce side.

Southgate will serve up more of the same with the odd like-for-like replacement. He's fucking clueless. Nice guy, but a hopeless coach.

Imagine going on strike to force through a move. To Everton.

I genuinely don't know why they don't want other clubs competing, in any case. What's the problem? Does it fuck with their marketing plan being based on only six clubs who matter? The BBC clearly love that metric.

He is one of you, isn't he?

Well, I'd be alright, plus Froggy and Leffe. I can't think of the other other clubs fans. Anyone remember Dr Spectrum? He was a decent poster. Wonder what happened to him.

What a load of absolute horse shit. They set the stupid rules up to perpetually keep the same suspects - at least one of which only got there through cheating - at the top, and to force a situation whereby ambitious clubs are forced to sell their best players - esp home grown ones - most likely to those same clubs. So some clubs realise there’s a way around this if they have a mutual liking for each others players and structure the deal as not a swap. They *coughs* are doing nothing wrong at all. They’re maximising wriggle room within the rules. If that is not acceptable then it shows the rules are fundamentally flawed.

We do all die. In the end.

Jesus Christ, 40m? Then it'd be another 20m for his BUPA subscription. Then you just know he'd be off to Milan fashion week where he'd trip over his own vagina and be out for 6 months.

Not too sure about the luxury lifestyle tbh, not much having it large on a Saturday night over there. Also, reckon the sun stops being a positive when it's like 6000 degrees every day. You're effectively accepting your career is over and opting to go and hoover up loads of money to do next to nothing.

The Dogheads fans love Kilman.

I am starting to wonder if Boehly is mentally ill or going through some sort of mid life crisis. How is it even possible to have so many players?

Genuine question, though, how is it being cheated? I agree, it looks a bit, well, odd, but it's not like the clubs are selling each other furniture for £15m a char or something. Or hotels. And even then, if the clubs have players the other club likes the look of, and it makes sense to mutually sell, then that's fair enough, that's a by-product of this shitty PSR system, forcing clubs to decide to work with each other.

I know Wes Edens (our other owner) gets on well with Boehly but I fail to see how giving us tons of money for a teenager helps Chelsea.

We don't exactly need rescuing, but I do agree, this is most unusual. Then again, look at it another way, PSR is forcing clubs to do things they don't want to be doing, and although Kellyman is meant to be promising, I'd rather bring in another 20m for him and minimise the need to sell an established player. Also, it shows that plundering other clubs academies is a strategy worth doing. We set out a deliberate policy 5 years or so ago to hoover up the best talent from the academies of other clubs in the midlands. That's how Kellyman came (from Derby), Iroegbunam and several others (from Albion), Chukwuemeka (Northampton). Then we develop them in our own academy and sell them for significant sums of money. The rules are shit, but you have to find a way to play along with them, I guess.

how does that differ from selling a player to someone else? Thats the case whoever we sell Duran to.

how would that avoid ffp?

The contract will be valid from 1st July, so next financial year. But this is clearly going to be involving a degree of selling someone to Chelsea, as you said, Duran probably. Strange move, though. Firstly, Digne was excellent last season. I suspect he's had another big Saudi offer, though. Secondly, Moreno is more than decent, but struggled with injuries last year. Thirdly, the deal for Luiz to go to Juventus is supposed to include Illing-Junior coming here, and he is a left back (isn't he?).

So-so. Hasn't had many chances, to be fair, but when he has, he's looked like he was struggling. Another 10m in sales for the academy, though. What with us all knowing the most important thing is not football, but accountancy.

It is bewildering how anyone is supposed to break the established order when they're not allowed to spend the money they have freely available, and are forced to sell players against their will, whilst some clubs just seem to be able to spend any sum they want, on a near weekly basis in some cases.

Terrible news, poor Sarkic. I didn't even know about Campbell.

Ha ha ha, just choked at Hatfield mention, bravo.